An invitation to the conference has been addressed to all socialist parties of Russia, and consequently also to ours, and we cannot pass over in silence this fact of international significance. The social-chauvinists of all the warring countries appear in the capacity of unofficial representatives of their governments and ruling classes, — said Comrade Lenin.

The German government, under pressure from internal ferment, is prepared to renounce part of its annexations, and Borgbjerg is its diplomatic representative. He (a representative of Stauning's party, from which a group of Marxists emerged under the leadership of Comrade Trier, after Stauning's entry into the bourgeois ministry) has nothing in common either with German or with Scandinavian workers. The conference of social-patriotic majorities appears to German ruling circles as a convenient opportunity to attempt to come to an understanding with the predators on the other side.

The social-patriots who took part in the shameful war, as Comrade Nogin expressed it, wish to take part also in its shameful conclusion. On the other hand, the rebuff given by the imperialists of the Triple Entente to this proposal reveals with obvious clarity their conquering aspirations. And this the revolutionary social-democracy must use to its own advantage, unmasking the deception from both sides. A party uniting over 70,000 workers ought to address itself to the internationalist workers of all countries with a warning against deception.

*Pravda* no. 41, 9 May (26 April) 1917

Printed from the text of the newspaper *Pravda*